Sentence examples for the prosecution started from inspiring English sources

The prosecution started its closing speech by drawing attention to the "cool and calculating" manner in which the children were killed.

"The prosecution started out talking about a murder charge, now they are down to manslaughter," Benjamin Malka, one of the lawyers representing the soldier, told reporters earlier in April.

The prosecution, starting with a dramatic audiotape of the explosion, has moved briskly through questions of motive, means and timing.

Such a move would require the attorney general's office to take over the prosecution, starting from scratch, the lawyer said.

I certainly don't think the Icelandic people should pay for Icesave; it should be the people who exploited the depositors, and we can only hope that the prosecutions start coming out and the culprits will be brought to justice.

Rory Little, a law professor who served as a member of the committee that reviewed capital cases in the Justice Department under Janet Reno, said that attorneys general are often reluctant to drop a death penalty prosecution started by one of their predecessors.

Prosecutions of officials below cabinet rank might be carried out by the attorney-general through the Justice Department; but the Watergate prosecutions started out that way, and ran into serious delays.

The 1917 Espionage Act has been wielded six times since Obama entered the White House, twice the number of prosecutions started by all previous administrations combined.

In February an appeals court ruled that the six-year statute of limitations for prosecution starts running only with the last act of evasion, and each year you fail to report an offshore account of more than $10,000 on your 1040 counts as another, later act.

But the sharp split between military detention and criminal prosecution starts to blur as conspiracy charges are added to the mix.

So may the prosecution she started.